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A wise person once told me
It’s not about me.
It’s about those who come before me
and those who come after me
Thus, I must do
Numb, I try to get up but I sit blank.Can’t blink so I pinch myself, -“ok I’m awake.”It’s crazy, -sober or not I was wired to hallucinate.Shake it off like it’s just from bein up so late.
A scurry in the wood
I wonder if I should
Smile and stay around
Or leave the sacred ground
Here live nature's creatures
Some are big and some small
Untouched by our world
There is prejudice still living in the veins of this countryIt seeps in and taints like poisoned blood manifesting into senseless body bags from killers corrupted by ignoranceYour hatred is a disease
Life is a long journey,
With paths of uphill and downhill.
On a road with successes and failures,
Obstacles can be overcomed,
Goals can be achieved.
The world keeps turning
My mind keeps spinning
The sky calls out to me
My heart is pounding
I feel like flying
But there's something I can't see
What lies ahead
The Living Planet
wonders in my heart
pulling, tugging, dancing.
It's not about how much time we have left
it's about how much work we have to do.
The power of law and kindness.
Inspiration, for me
comes from the ink carved squiggles
of the written word.
Never before has anything
been more beautiful
Click, click, click
time stood as rare as a heart beat,
"shes flatlined",
panic filled the room like an elpephant,
I was bare.
Mourning rose as the sun,
It used to be the storm.
A hurricane surrounding me
until I couldn’t breathe;
The world spinning and collapsing
Not hearing a single sound
Inspiration, something that takes time
Something that can be hard to find
Family, friends, objects
For me, none were the right kind
Family is an inspiration
Influencers they are
What inspires me, you may ask?
Is it the medal, the trophy, that gleams extravagantly above?
No, it is instead my immaculate Savior,
The one that epitomizes the word "love."
Young one as told.
My brother not old.
With a smile so precious,
To me it was treasured.
No words spoken,
But, actions taken.
Thoughts so clear,
There was no fear.
Then I knew,
Today
Off you go my dears
to fight a war you know nothing of
Fire in your bellies
Youth in your veins
Raising your fists to the opposition
while you are still too young to know what oppositions means
Near the hazy streetlamps
Shrouded by the storm,
I walk down the street
Head down, boots splashing in puddles,
Is what he always said
It was the catchphrase they knew to capitalize on
But I never could
So instead I listened to the words
And why not?
I breath in
the crisp air
coming in
a life giver
My mother
the one who embraces me
with warm hugs
My father
the provider
the one has sacraficed so much
just for me
Today is the best day ever.
You said it everyday.
And everyday you were really saying,
Everyday gets better.
You make it better
I didn’t know you,
and then I did.
I didn’t see you,
and then I did.
From miles apart across the nation,
To pushing each other
Countless people curse its name
Giving it a negative frame
Saying, "Who needs all that nonsense?"
But, I say, "That belief is rather dense."
They tell us to cease our endless staring
They ask me of my inspirations,
yet, to many to be explained.
The air I breathe,
the colours I see,
are two out of many ways.
The trees have wilted.
The fruit has rotten.
Concrete and steel scrape
at her warm embrace.
The watercolor dreidel spins in slow motion
A great conversation exists
Between poets of the past
Between rhymester and reader
Author and audience
Minstrel and muse
The artist desires
To add her dialogue
Words.
Words have power.
Words shape our world.
In a book.
In a speech.
On a street sign.
In our language.
Words.
Words give us the ability to express our innermost feelings.
People
Oblivious, self-aware
Advising, despising, tolerating
Everyone is uniquely different
Humans
Time’s a thief and it’s a friend,
It brings the story to its end,
It sweetens grapes,
Decides your fate,
Takes love and gives it back again.
A boat sailing
from a shore
that offers my desire
to fix shattered waves
Sail me, built in time, to
a shore of rest
Still,
to be secure from crashing waves
crashing waves
Do not go gentle against those who are corrupt,Shameful those who just stand by;Rage, rage against the dying of society. Though wise men loose sight of what is right,Because their assets rise and ego enflate,Do not go gentle into that dark hole. G
Mama, Mama
To be just like you
I thought at only two
Pretty as a dove
Soaring high above.
Mama, Mama
So brave you are
I look up to you
Like I look up to the stars.
What inspires me
When I look upon the trees.
I love to sit in awe
Way deep down in the straw.
I find my deepest thought taking place
If that tumor were a bullet I would’ve taken it for him.
If that tumor weren’t a part of him I’d wipe it away, throw it away, put a stamp on it And send it away.
But that would be too easy.
Cancer isn’t easy.
Money makes the world go round.
Money
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Move the world the way it needs to go.
There is a piece of my heart -
Torn, flighty, and wild,
Free spirited and purposely audacious-
And it begins now to throw
First pebbles, then stones,
At my windows,
It was always the same question, but never with an answer It was never only one person It always about life and what happened around my surroundingSeeing the things that came to be before my eyesIt was then that I knew what I had to do. As everyth
I had a dream of never being good enough
Being Hidden in the cracks of the world
due to my unapogetically curvy size
No Im not sorry
I belong just like thinner bodies.
